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So, the nifty thing about this temp is it does 100% damage. Boss, lieut, minion, whatever. So, my typical procedure is to scout the mission, see how many higher level mobs there are. This past time I had 14 lieutenants (just running at +1, no bosses, still getting used to this marine affinity secondary) the other 15 or so were minions. First LT, I use Aim, then the temp....miss. It aggros the lt, so I have choices. I can run away - no real need to do that. I can munch a bunch of yellows, or I can debuff the lt myself with Shoal Rush - it reduces defense, so may as well return the favor. I check my buff bar - the debuffs are gone, and I miss again with the temp. Now, I completely get this can happen, and that this is probably an outlier. Overall, of the 20 charges, only 14 hit the target. So, why not give us 10 charges and make 'em autohit? Something. But this whiffing is inclined to make me start drinking again.

So, I'll start by saying I wouldn't expect or want ALL temps to be auto-hit. But this one, you get 20 shots. The ghosts in this mission already debuff the to-Hit, so once that happens a single miss can cascade into multiple misses, of both the temp and the rest. And it can take an awful lot of keen insights to get back into the positive numbers for accuracy/To-hit. Since it is just 20 charges, I think an auto-hit for this temp would be a nice thing.

I remember a couple of times when we had to deal with multi-blooms - and the solution is simple, though problematic in relaying to the rest of the league. Have an EoE, buff up as before, and only aim to take down 2-3 mitos before we head back to re-buff and redeploy until the mitos are gone. You may trust me when I say I remember how things were with Foxfyre and the rest of the gang wanting to stick with their method. Back then, their position was to not be more efficient because they felt the HC devs would either nerf things for the characters, or buff Hami. I kind of miss Foxfyre. For whatever reason, people would tease him relentlessly, and some of the jokes were pretty funny. I only asked because when I would go into the hive, I would never know who is leading. Because if I knew who was leading I could ask them why they are waiting until 45 past to invite when the zone is already full. It makes zero sense. We're all here, let's start!

May I just say that "Fright Club" is a clever name for it?

As for the OP suggestion, my only caveat would be to recognize in certain council cave maps, you can enter a hallway at the wrong angle and find yourself behind some pipe, and you have to back up and try again, or TP out. I once made a fire tank on retail that was a tall as I could make it, and that was always an issue.

Make a character called John Thomas. Probably from 1860's Europe. Legend has it he was rather gifted.

This is probably more of a destructible object issue than a Marine Affinity issue. This is a repeatable bug. I was doing a level 20-30 vigilante tip mission. The objectives are to destroy 2 psychic containers. I had one at a sliver of health left, and chose to whitecap to finish it off - and I got "target blocked", despite nothing being in the way. I did a 360 around this object, and could not hit it with white cap. Fine, used a blast, and went after the 2nd. Same story. Whitecap would not work on these objects, said they were blocked. It could be Whitecap and some method with how it works, or it could be the objects themselves. <shrug>

There can only be one big toe.

There's an art of sorts to teaming while side-kicked. Get some more practice!

I was kind of hoping someone would post something in here. And while it's way past the date you asked for it, today was the day I finally got around to making my own. I do have an issue with this build. The endurance management while leveling is going to be a problem. I just don't see a way around it, other than doing without certain fight pool toggles, which would leave me with a debt and completing defeats problem. I typically do not post a build without playing it to 50 outside of PL/Farming. But, why not - I've provided the disclaimer that I've no experience in game with this build yet. I'm ignorant of much of what MA does. But, it is a starting point. Not Potable - Corruptor (Ice Blast - Marine Affinity).mbd

Only 12 at a time, then finding 1 or 2 in that place isn't that bad. Thanks!

It's okay that my opinion is different. I just have a ton of characters, so while the selection to show it is easy, it's a lot of "easy" things to do. I suppose there are other folks where the reverse would also be a lot of "easy" things to do. I am also in the minority in not really grasping why other than people making silly judgements about your character, why keeping it a secret is a thing. But, again, why is showing it a thing for me? I guess because a lot of my characters are from when HC opened the doors. Other than that...not a thing. It's really not a big deal. There are so many other things that I'd change before this, I promise. Man...if I could be king for a day...I don't think anything in this game would get changed. I'd be busy working on our economic policies, and some social policies, too!

Interesting. I am thinking of how it would play out if a vendor were changed to increase the price of rare salvage to 500K. I wonder if the price on the AH would go up, or down. Now, that day-dreaming aside, I think I'd like to introduce a level of tedium as a suggestion to Okie and other players. /vault So, we have room for 100 salvage, in addition to what our characters can carry. I've used this in so many silly ways. Some characters of mine have stashed all the rares they receive in there, just to see if they can beat the personal record of 46 rare drops before they reach level 50. I have gotten in the habit of just dropping my rares in the vault, often to my detriment, as I'll end up wanting to craft something and forget to look in there. It's happened enough where I made an SG just for crafting, and my "crafting" characters now belong to it and use the salvage within if they need something. Very tedious at times, I assure you. And I am "flush" as Okie puts it. I do this kind of tedium to keep the inf out of the hands of other marketers who would like nothing more than my inf in their pockets! You cannot have it! Unless of course, I am in need of something you have..then, perhaps. If one can successfully make it routine to toss rare salvage in the vault, and check the vault before crafting, it's not terribly time consuming. The only thing I'm likely to ever vendor is common salvage and GM recipes. I'm still kicking myself for not listing the Hamidon pet recipe when it was going for 100M. And I am grateful that purple and pvp recipes don't show up on the vendor list to sell. Since I don't have an issue with ever selling rare salvage anywhere, as I use it all, (eventually) I'm good with Okie's suggestion.

So, I was a bit curious about this. But not in a good way, I'm afraid. I find that during the "speedy labyrinth" runs, sometimes, I find fogs fairly easily, just by literally taking random doors. And sometimes, this comes up empty. I'll be on a league of roughly 28-32 folks, and we'll get the level shifts fairly quickly. But I'll feel like a free-loader, because at most I find 1 or 2. I've tried using these fog /locs you have, but most of the time, nothing is there. I get that their placement is random. But do we know how many fogs are present at one time? Do we know if it depends on the number of players in zone? You've done an incredible amount of work on this pop-menu, and rather than pester Cobalt, figured I'd just ask here. It would be nice to just zip around and have a good hunch where they'll be, as opposed to relying on RNG/luck.

I know it appears as if I've necro'd a thread. Didn't make sense to me to start a new thread with this question. I have an ice/MA corr on the test server now. Shoal Rush IS a strong debuff, granted. But how is it a heal for the team? (I was on test, and unteamed) I look at the detailed info tab, and there's nothing about it being a team heal. The team heal is Soothing Wave. And for whatever reason on the test server, I've skipped it. (Only level 25 or so, plenty of time to pick it up, but it's been completely unnecessary so far - but I haven't been pushing things either, nor have I teamed with anyone on test.) I'd also be curious after some time has gone by if anyone has changed their tune on MA, and if there are any pitfalls to avoid.

So, this has happened before (a couple of years ago on an ITF); still not real sure of the cause, though I do know the solution. Today, I had two accounts running, but only one on a map. The 2nd was on the character selection screen. I was in the labyrinth, fighting the minotaur, and when I zoned into the arena to attack, my target changed from the mino to a league mate. So, I targeted the mino again - same thing. (same league mate, too) I then targeted the mino again, and used my mouse to fire, instead of the number keys, and had to continue to use the mouse instead of my keyboard until the fight was over to implement the solution. And the solution is to close the 2nd account completely. I've had situations like this happen before, back when I was afk farming on 2 accounts, and actively playing on my first account. Shutting the other accounts down resolves the issue. I'm fairly certain this has nothing to do with the labyrinth, as it's happened before. But I can't reproduce it. I'm only putting it here because of the solution I've found for it, as it might be helpful to others.

I knew it wasn't the proper spelling of Whisper, but for the life of me, I couldn't remember the proper spelling of your handle. My apologies.

Sadly, I'm not a fan of the crash. If your end isn't up, bad things could happen. I've built a PB before, and it's possible to get the resists up to cap for several attributes, but without lightform, no status protection. It's odd. I don't have a problem with other end crashes on other ATs. Probably says more about me than the AT. I have my current PB on the back burner; with the new sheer willpower accolade, there may be a case to be made for bringing it out. Time will tell.

If you play on Excelsior in the afternoon/evenings, you'll eventually come across Goddess Laucianna or Queen Maya, or Whisper or any other number of what seems to me to be predominately Kheldian players. And you'll also be aware that everyone is encouraged to make one, play one and become a kheldian. I have never been a player to get too distracted about a costume for my characters. I often just use the RNG and adjust from there. Sometimes, I'll use the SG costume of Cosmic Council and change the colors and the disturbingly bad hairstyles they have. And since I have no shame, I will admit to going to the discord of other CoH servers, looking in their costume threads and trying to copy some of the more interesting looks. One of the things that's held me back from a kheldian was the appearance of the forms, and the lack of status protection if you wanted to go as a human only form. So, before I make the suggestion that's probably already been made, is there a reason why the dwarf form can't be colored red or something? And the nova form also take on a different shade than the default? It's also a 10 prismatic loss that led me to discover the form changes over-ride the costume toggle. The toggle remains on when you switch back, which is better than nothing, but sorry - the nova form is pretty gross. And the dwarf form isn't much better. I'm sure that's just me, though. I caught wind of something about a "Red Hulk", like the Incredible Hulk we all know of, but I've never come across a Red Hulk. Which is what led me to think of a Red Dwarf. (as opposed to White Dwarf and Black Dwarf) I'm sure someone up on the lore could come up with a reason why a dwarf form shouldn't be Red, or any other color than the default white or black. But aside from lore, do we know of a reason why the dwarf and nova forms can't be adjustable?

Solved this for you.

I apologize and appreciate the correction. I would have sworn it did when I posted it did, but I can only assume something confused me. On subsequent characters, it didn't give progress.

It is dizzying to me that someone actually came up with this idea.

This is super interesting to me. So many costume options we have, for free, unlocked out of the gate. And maybe that's why they want the player to "work"/play for some things? I didn't agree with the introduction of the prismatic as currency. I feel the reward merit could have satisfied the same transactions, but after experiencing many of the reward structures, I'm slowly having to appear inconsistent and change my mind. Without the new loot, a number of folks might not have been motivated to try the newer content after rumors/anecdotes (some exaggerated, perhaps) about how challenging it is.

While I do think posting a build in the specific AT sub-forum is a better way to get more specific advice, for now, let's assume you don't even have mids and don't even know what it is. I don't enjoy playing a dom, mainly because building domination is easier on a team, and sometimes, teaming isn't a good thing for me, because I will often have to tab out without notice, at least during the day. But, one thing I do know is there is more than one way to build and play a dominator! The problem is we aren't clear on where you are as a player. We don't know your budget. We don't know what level you are or what content is giving you difficulties. All of it? some of it? In any event, just as a rule of thumb, even though perma-dom is great to have, one doesn't NEED it to be a good dominator. Often, on a team, you'll get the recharge buffs you need to get there. So, when any of my characters are dying more often than I think they should, (like once or twice per map) the first thing I think of is "what's causing this?" a. afk, phone ringing, something distracting me? If so, don't sweat it. b. Getting mezzed, then killed. If so, bring break frees, and/or consider trying to earn the Sheer Willpower accolade, something that will break the mez and protect you for 30 seconds or so. c. just getting hit too hard, too much before I can kill them. If so, look at the mission difficulty. Is it +4? Reduce it to +2 and try again. Is it +0? Then we need to consider taking the on more endurance hogs like the fight pool, and get tough and weave. If we have those, and a patron armor and are still getting clobbered - at that point, it might be time to consider learning about mids, how to get and install it, and in game, you type /buildsave and your build is then saved and can be uploaded into mids and shared on the dominator sub-forum, where players with much more experience with the dom can chime in.

Fortunately, other than D-Syncs, Hami-Os, Titan-Os, and Hydra-Os, there's multiple ways to get whatever you need.